Activity for Elysia

I need some advice. From the beginning my fiancé and I decided we were going to do the music ourselves. It felt like a waste to pay for a DJ when all we need is ceremony music and background music for the reception. We’re not doing dancing. I made...

Hi! I will try to keep this short and was hoping for some advice. My fiancé’s friends are getting married in October. He has this friend group of four guys and their wives/significant others. They’re not bad people and I like them, but the girls...

Hi everyone! After cancelling our wedding, my fiancé and I are trying to plan things again. Our ideas of what we want have drastically changed, originally we were going to invite close to 60 people, now we plan to invite only 35. We live in PA in the...

Yesterday my fiancé and I decided to cancel our May 2021 wedding and to hold off on any new plans. While there are so many unknowns with the virus, I’m aware that many people are planning for spring 2021. There is more to this though, and I’m...

Hi everyone! My fiancé and I still have plenty of time to figure out what we’d like to do for our cake and search for vendors, but we’d like to start coming up with ideas. It’s been a little challenging, because neither of us like buttercream icing...

Hello! I just talked to my first wedding flower vendor yesterday and was totally SHOCKED at the price I was quoted. Over $600 for a bouquet for me, a boutonnière for him, and 7 centerpieces. I knew flowers were expensive but I didn’t think...

We’re hoping to send out save the dates soon and need to finalize our guest list. Our venue is small and only holds 50 people. We made a list that is just shy of that number of the family and friends we are closest to. My question is, is it okay to...

Hi everyone! I am getting married next year and so is a friend of mine. My question is two fold, about hers and my bachelorette. She invited me to hers, which is really exciting for me because I’ve never been to one! I would also plan on inviting her...

I’m new to this site but have been reading the forums for a while and I’m hoping I can get some good advice. My fiancé and I got engaged over the summer. Right now, we don’t have much extra money for a wedding. We throw what we can into an extra bank...